Colin munro



(No Model.)

0. MUNRO. BILLIARD CHALK HOLDER AND PROTECTOR. No. 497,886. Patented May 23, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

COLIN MUNRO, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDWARD BOYD, OF SAME PLACE.

BlLLlARD-CHALK HOLDER AND PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 497,886, dated May 23, 1893.

Application filed August 25, 1892. Serial No. 444,085. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: ably about half way, after which they taper Be it known that I, COLIN MUNRO, a citizen inward for a distance equal to or a little of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, greater than the height of the chalk so as to 55 in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, form a round neck with open end of less area haveinventedcertain newanduseful Improvethan the closed end.

ments in Billiard-0halk Holders and Protec- To insert a block of chalk which will fit tors, of which the following is a specification. snugly within the angular portion of the cov- My invention relates to improvements in ering the round portion has to be stretched, 6o

protectors and holders for the ordinary bilafter which it exerts sufficient strain to keep 10 liard cue chalk blocks of commerce. the chalk in place no matter how much the An important item of expense in connection same be worn. As I employ very thin rubber with the use of billiard tables is the chalk I prefer to strengthen the open end by moldwasted and the destruction of the cloth by the ing the rubber thicker at that point in the 65 constant wear of chalk dust and the neoesform of a bead, as shown at a, and to have sary frequent hard brushing. Blocks of chalk this extend beyond the inserted chalk so as to are frequently accidentally knocked off the close over the corners thereof and prevent table rail and are broken by the fall or crushed players from using the chalk on any part of by the feet of the players, thus soiling the the one except the tip. 0 floor and rendering the use of carpet almost The hole Z2 is provided in the bottom for the impracticable, but the most disagreeable feainsertion of a punch when necessary to faciliture of this waste is the soiling of the hands tate the removal of the chalk. and clothing of the players; and the object of By constructing the holder in the manner my invention is to obviate all these objecdescribed,of thin elastic rubber, and forming 5 tions by providing achal k holder of thin elasit with a permanent contracted neck during tic rubber, which protects the chalk from the process of manufacture, the chalk is sebreaking or cracking under ordinary condicurely retained in place, even if cracked or lions and enables it to be almost entirely used in separate pieces, and the holder can be up in the legitimate use for which it is proquickly and conveniently turned inside out vided, and when too much worn to be serviceto discharge its contents for a fresh supply,

30 able the remainder may be readily removed and in these respects my invention differs and another block inserted, while always bematerially and substantially from a chalking clean and pleasant to handle. I attain holder of comparatively thick rubber without these objects by the device hereinafter dethe contracted neck formed during the proscribed and claimed and illustrated in the access of manufacture.

5 companying drawings making a part-of this Having thus described my invention, what specification, in which- I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the holder; cut, is Fig. 2 a central vertical section of the same A chalk-holder formed of thin elastic rubon the line 0000 Fig. 1. Fig. 3 representsaperher with one square end, and sides tapering 4o spective View of the holder with the chalk in inwardlytherefromintoapermanentlyformed position for use; and Fig. 4 is a central vertiround contracted neck, the mouth of which cal section of the same on line y y, Fig. 3. projects beyond the block of chalk to retain Billiard chalks which are intended to be the latter in position while permitting the kept loose in pockets under the rail are made holder to be turned inside out, substantially 45 fiat sided, usually cubes, in order to avoid as described.

rolling off the rail, and in providing a cover- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set ing for them it is essential to preserve this my hand. form.

My holders are molded out of thin elastic COLIN MUNRO' 5o india-rubber with the end flat and quadran- Witnesses:

gular, from which the four sides rise at right EDWARD BOYD,

angles, or nearly so, for some distance, prefer- O. W. MILES. 

